Word: drew
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...valid only insofar as it is opposed to the bourgeois ideal in whose name life is being extinguished," he said. Hergé admired Magritte, and even bought one of his paintings. Magritte, however, saw Tintin as too colonial, Catholic and conservative. In the 1930s, Hergé drew the cover for a political pamphlet for Léon Degrelle, leader of the Belgian fascists; at the same time, Magritte designed a caricature of Degrelle looking into a mirror and seeing an image of Adolf Hitler looking back at him. (See pictures of Hitler's rise to power...
...remained in the background until last month, when the first round of cuts across the University’s largest school drew outrage from constituents who felt as though the real talk—which led to $77 million in cutbacks—had happened behind closed doors...
...would fall by more than 15 percent over the next two years. “Reshaping” had replaced “resizing” (what happened to the coffee at afternoon meetings) as the new buzzword. The concept arose organically from University-wide discussions, Harvard President Drew G. Faust says, but the word ultimately came from Smith. “Do you like it or not?” Smith asked during a recent interview...
...Forst says, leaning across the table, his eyes bright in earnestness. “We were quickly in the middle of this financial crisis—that’s not something that we really thought was happening in the world, let alone happening at Harvard, when Drew hired me in June...
Lauer began his remarks with several anecdotes that drew laughs, joking about when he told his high school guidance counselor that he wanted to apply to Harvard “as a stretch...